People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.

I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change, or at least save a few women from the same fate. Eternally naïve, that's me.

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.